The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-16
IN THE LABOR WORLD
Specially Compiled for the Toilsrs BY an Ad-
veoate Man.

/ Df0oAeAiS eOmpileu for tue IUtlef1 pY an Ad-
veoate Man.
Let Progression" Be the motto Of the
toilers.
--Puddlers' helpers are still scarce in the
Pittsburg iron mills
Oliver 6 Co.'S, sheet mill at Easton
has been closed indefinitely.
"A match factory is to be moved from
Chester county TO Columbia.
Two Po;tsYllc men will start 4 wire
rope factory at Willamsport this month
There is talk " establishing an acid
factory near Thorndale, In Sullivan coun-
ty.
The management Of the Clinton mill,
Pittsburg, has broken ground for eight new
furnaces.
--Plttsbrrg capitalists have leased large
traet Of land at summcIhil, Cambaia
county, for mining coal
-PoItsviile's Boar Of Trade has nearly
doubled Its membership in two weeks, hay
ing grown from 30 to g5.
The Wilkesbarre and Western employees
found small vein Of coal Id a cut at the
upper end Of Slilckshinnv
The Susquehanna Iron Company has
offered its employees compromise advance
in wages, which has been accepted.
The employees of Mann's axe factory,
at Sllll Hall, Clinton county, had their
wages Increased ten per cent, OH the 2sth Of
March.
The Pennsylvania. Railroad Company
has comntepcod the. erection Of another
large shop for, The car department in
Altoona.
Lebanon capitalists have formed q
company to erect skelp mills which will
give employment to a large number Of
people.
The wages Of the puddlers at McIlvain's
sheet mill, Reading. haYe been advanced
from 1885 to 81 ton. The mill is shut
down just now tor repairs.
The engines at the r0lling mill and steel
works below Unlontown are ready to turn
on steam, aud about June the steel depart
ment will be started,
The Knights Of Labor boycott on the
Stroudsburg Glass Works has advertised
the concern enough to give 1t business that
will run il for year to come.
There Is talk Of the establishment of
two moro folhng-mills in Lebanon, one BY
Lyman Nutting and James Meiley and one
by the Lebanon Iron Company.
Wages have been increased five per
cent, at the pipe mill of the Reading Iron
Works. The increase is the third granted
by the company during six months.
Ale .sheny river people will beSiege Con-
gress for big appropriation next winter on
the ground that river competition will be
needed to relieve them from high railroad
rates.
-Iacoe & sniifer, of Pittston, and the
New York and Pittston Coal Company offer
building sites to manufacturing establish.
ments capable Of employing five huhdEed
employees.
. 1t is pleasing to note the lively and
successful manner in which labor organi-
cations arc advancing in public esteem.
Where formely they were condemned they
are now Landed.
The Scranton Stove Works are shu,
down this week for the purpose of enlarging
the plant When the improvements are
this will be one Of the largest |
stove works in the State.
The Susquehapna and Tidewater Canal,
$bIch was damagej-by the ice last winter,
will not be in operation before June, unless
more men can be secured to repair the dam
age than are now engaged at the work.
The Heading Railroad employees don't
ike to bs paid WAGES by checks. Small
lealers, whose cash on hand is small, fear
il VIII divert business to the larger and |
Sealthier st6resi which can readily cash
checks, while the large stores viii have to
carry large Vums Ct money after banking
hours at considerable risk.
Cardinal Taschercau issued a circular
to tile priests of the archdiocese, which was
read in all the churches Sunday, in regard
tc the knights of Labor. In it he says
that his order against the Knights has been
suspended by the Pope and that therefore
he authorizes confessors to absolve Knights
of Labor upon the following conditions
First: That they confess and sincerely
repent the grievious sin which they COM
mtted by not obeying the decree of Sep
tember, 1884. Second. That they be
ready to abandon This society so soon as the
Holy See shall ordain it. Third. That
they sincerely and explicitly promise abso-
lutely to avoid all that may either favor
Masonic and other condemned societies, or
violate the laws either of justice, charity or
of the State. Fourth. That they abstain
from every oath by which they would bind
themselves either to obey blindly al the
orders Of the directors of the society, or
keep absolute secrecy, even towards the
lawful authorizes.
Weatherly Items.
-Rumor has 1t that few of our teachers ex.
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